(10 Dec 2020) Escalating computing power, expanding data sets, and algorithms of unprecedented sophistication have led to a massive increase in the number of journal and conference papers referring to Artificial Intelligence (AI) in recent years. The Nature Index AI supplement draws on Nature Index data and the larger Dimensions from Digital Science database to analyse the…
By Ruth A. Pagell* (3 0ct 2020) Nature has taken the data from its 2020 rankings, using 2019 share data (fractional counting), to produce a ranking of the top 200 Science Cities. Nature Index does not include output in social sciences or arts and humanities, it uses the one metric, and is size-dependent. What is…
Major institutions in the US and China dominate the top ranks for output of quality research articles, but a new normalized Nature Index ranking reveals that some smaller institutes are punching well above their weight. (19 June 2019) In the Nature Index 2019 annual tables, released today, the United States is well ahead of China then…
(13 December 2018, London) The Nature Index 2018 supplement on China reveals that China’s contribution to the Nature Index rose by 75% between 2012 and 2017, much more than a selection of leading countries in the Index, such as the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom and Japan. China’s share of global scientific output as…
(7 June 2018) The United States is the world’s largest contributor to high-quality scientific research papers, followed by China and Germany, according to the Nature Index 2018 Annual Tables released today. These tables track by country and institution the research published in 82 high-quality journals each year, counting both the total number of papers and…
(21 March 2018) A new analysis from the Nature Index has revealed that Japan continues to decline in its overall contribution to high-quality scientific output. A further fall of 3.7% in 2017 deepens the 19.6% decrease recorded by the Nature Index between 2012 and 2016. Japan’s share of the world’s high-quality research articles included in…
(24 May 2017) The Nature Index 2017 China supplement, published today, reveals that as China’s total number of articles included in the Nature Index increased since 2012, the percentage of articles with international co-authors has continued to rise year-on-year. By 2016, papers with international co-authors comprised more than 50% of the country’s articles in the…
(22 March 2017, London) According to the Nature Index, Japan’s scientific output has failed to keep pace with other leading nations over the past decade, risking its position among the world’s elite if renewed government efforts fail to reverse a downward trend in its performance. Japan’s share of high-quality papers included in the Nature Index…
(20 April 2016, London) The US is the world’s largest contributor to high-quality scientific research papers, followed by China and Germany, according to the Nature Index 2016 Tables. Of the top ten countries in the Nature Index, only China has shown double digit compound annual growth between 2012 and 2015 with some of its universities…
By Ruth A. Pagell* 12 Asian institutions are in the top 50 worldwide and 3 Asian countries are in the top 10 for publishing articles in the “best” journals. Ruth’s Rankings 7 and 8 follow up on previous rankings by looking at other methodologies that drill further down into scholarly output and provide different options…